KDE4 on NVIDA 1.0-96xx series driver

Had a couple of problems making KDE4 load on my desktop. At first I though the packages were wrong but after thinking for a second, why would rworkman release something that isn’t working? I doubt that the packages were wrong so I’ve started poking around and check the logs. KWin was the culprit so I though maybe that there was something that wasn’t initialising like it should.

I’ve also added /etc/profile/qt4.sh and qt4.csh to make sure it loads qt4. It’s basically a copy of qt.sh but with the number 4. ;-) Check this thread for more information about this.

Apparently, NVIDIA cards on KDE4 is an issue according to various thread on the net so to test it up, I changed the driver in my xorg.conf from nvidia to nv and voila it worked. Something was wrong with my nvidia driver. I poke some more and found a couple of other thread about this issue. Here is what I added to my xorg.conf file.

Section "Device"
Driver "nvidia"

Option "NoLogo" "1"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "1"
EndSection

I also had to rebuild my nvidia driver for some reason the GLX wouldn’t load. After that I’ve rebuilt against the kernel I am running, it worked flawlessly. Cool!

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